Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography and portraiture - Excerpt from Mai He's Magazine Interview-Reflections on Photography.

Excerpt from Mai He's Magazine Interview-Reflections on Photography.

I have been filming, and sometimes I feel very painful because I can't shoot good things. I still hope to stop, especially when I encounter bottlenecks. I will look through books, see the works of foreign masters, and read Zen, hoping to combine the techniques of national characteristics with those of world masters and apply them to practical creation.

Photography is a cycle of subtraction and addition. Many times, photography needs to be defined as subtraction, and photography must be added when necessary. In fact, this is more difficult, just like giving you a canvas. You need to put something next to the text, where to leave it blank, why to put it, and how to put it properly. This is an aesthetic problem as well as a conceptual problem.